Postdoctoral Position in Philosophy (Epistemology or Ethics) at the University of Helsinki University of Helsinki in Finland

Postdoctoral Researcher in Legal History at the University of Helsinki , Finland, within the Centre of Excellence in Meliorist Philosophy of Suffering (MePhiS) . The position is hosted by the Faculty of Theology on the City Centre Campus and sits in the research team History of Ethics and Law of Responding to Suffering (WP3). The project explores how historical crisis situations such as wars, famine, and natural catastrophes challenged ethical and legal norms, especially in the medieval and earl...

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the SNSF-funded project “Understanding: Between Contents and Phenomena” , a 4-year, 100% position starting in December 2026 or by arrangement. The project is directed by Miloud Belkoniene and investigates how understanding works across linguistic, empirical, and moral phenomena . It brings together philosophy of language , epistemology , philosophy of science , and moral philosophy to study the cogni...

The University of Vienna is advertising a University Assistant postdoctoral position in the research area of Sanskrit Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education . The post is embedded in Prof. Elisa Freschi’s research team and focuses on the history of philosophy in the Sanskrit cosmopolis. The team’s current research themes include Mīmāṃsā , especially Kumārila Bhaṭṭa’s contributions to epistemology, philosophy of language, and ritual; debates on commands and deontics, especially thr...

Harvard University’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics is inviting applications for the Ethics & Civics Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The fellowship is housed in the Center’s Research & Design Studio , an interdisciplinary hub focused on the ethical and political dimensions of disagreement, civil discourse, and how to rebuild a culture of principled disagreement in higher education and public life. This is a postdoctoral fellowship for scholars and pract...

Postdoctoral position in digital media and communication at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen . The successful candidate will join the ERC Advanced Grant project GREENWATCH – Green Surveillance: Imagining a Sustainable Internet of Things (2025–2029). The project explores the potentials and challenges of using the Internet of Things (IoT) as a communication system for monitoring the effects of human activities on Earth’s ecosystems, while also consid...